Perhaps it operates more efficiently, but it doesn't sound like it is so efficient to produce. Unless I'm misunderstanding or misrepresenting the verbiage from the summary.
You forgot that femtosecond part. The usage of the whole USA grid is for an incredibly tiny fraction of a second, 10^15 of a second. The USA grid is 4x10^15 watts. So really, if you want to translate it into a more sane energy understanding, its about four watts per bulb to do this.
I find it interesting that our Supreme Court Nominee was not part of this ruling. In fact, the 2nd circuit is making a lot of important rulings - they also established legal precedent in the Google Adwords trademark violation case, and some stuff about trademarks and internet before that. But I don't see her opinion on -any- of them. Maybe we should appoint the judge whose opinion this is?
10) We did not destroy ourselves in a holocaust by 1960, by 1980, or by 2000, as many sci-fi writers have depicted.
9) In 'Future World" marketing shows, the man watched black and white TV or listened to the radio after he got home from work while the woman cleaned and made tv dinners. Now, men can play xbox 360 all day because the women cook and clean, AND have a job.
8) The biggest alien species we have possibly countered so far is a couple of dents on the size of a martian meteor.
7) Automation has made consumer products that we know better, and allowed for the use of new ones. Seriously, have you seen the documentary about the construction of an aluminum block for an engine? There's no way a human could cut with the tolerances and precision that these machines gave, and they didn't. Reliability is much, much better.
6) Materials are better. Man, they thought the future of everything was going to be stainless steel. Now, we can consumer products made from titanium. How cool is that?
5) Dual metal steak knives as seen on TV are frankly of a better quality than some of the finest japanese swords from the samurai era. The steel on the back is better, the forging is more consistent, the sharp end has a better grade of metal...
3) We have more and better food than we could have ever had before.
2) Our computers are hands down better than the computers depicted in the Star Trek, TOS, and in fact, are better than any computer depicted in any sci-fi medium or promise before then.
1) This is a great time for whiskey. American and Scottish producers are producing wonderful, wonderful spirits these days.
It just cost us tens trillion dollars to figure out that 30 years of free trading investment oriented capitalism wrecks your manufacturing base, leaves your country hopelessly in debt, and all these so-called free enterprise guys bitching about the UAW making 40k a year are actually not so free enterprise after all, when it comes to bailing them out, or protecting their businesses.
***Use Gaussian if you have an idea of what the parameter probably is but aren't exactly sure, rectangular if you really have no idea. A rectangular distribution says "I have no idea, the parameter could be anywhere within this particular range."
Guassian : So, make up three numbers, and assume that the middle number is -really- most likely.
Rectangular : make up two numbers, assuming that any number in between them is good.
In which case you will be doing the kind of work that people who make 500 grand a year do
Your CO2 example is not so good, you are forgetting that the "model" part of the term "computer model" has nothing to do with software. I don't think it's an exageragion to say that if you had a convincing model that showed where Tyndal and/or Fourier fucked up then people would be throwing money at you
And that's actually an understatement, and the fact that such a model does not exist, despite the obvious ticket to instant fame and fortune, tends to be the ultimate achilles heel in any argument of a GW denier. If they don't believe in the model that shows CO2 causes global warming, then, where's their alternative model that can be tested?
No, actually it would. While I6 BMW engine gets just over 300 ponies, an American V8 as found in the Pontiac G8 GXP can make about 420hp. And, it doesn't sound like shit while doing so. 4 cylinder and 6 cylinder engines sound like crap, especially at low rpms.
That might make sense if EU automotive companies were breaking US law and needed to be punished for it in a way that would encourage them to stop breaking the law and remedy the damage done.
At this level, the law doesn't matter. I'm actually in favor of banning most imports to the USA, so, at least in my book, the very fact that a BMW or a Mercedes is even allowed to exist in the USA is a gift to the German people.
Quants only produce models that act in the way that traders expect, and traders do not want bad news. I've done a small bit of modelling before and you always reach a point where there's this one number that is completely made up, and you kinda set things up so the trader makes the call. In this sense, all these models that everyone talks about are not so much as analysis tools as they are communications tools - you sorta code the insight of the trader as to how he or she thinks the market will move. It's a very human business, not one of a bunch of computers run amok. Quants that say otherwise are just full of themselves...
Working 2 years and producing a strong negative result is good science, but it doesnt get you published in a good journal.
My point is that it is a general statement of the human condition that you have to be right. You can work for two years and produce a strong negative result in any field of life. To create a product and release it, is, ultimately, an experiment. If I spend two years working on a product, then sell it, and find out x,y,z is wrong with it. Will I have learned a lot? Yes. But, it doesn't help pay the bills. Makes no difference in science, or the real world.
Indeed, if someone did spend two years researching something and then finding out that their model was wrong in some way, I'd be willing to bet that there are a dozen other scientists saying, "well, I could have told you so.", just as much as there are in any other field.
The last thing a consumer wants to do, when they turn on a computer, is to immediately be asked more questions. It's a pain in the rear. Sorry EU, but how about we start requiring that all cars imported from the EU to the USA have the option of being fitted with American V8s....
The problem with a career in science is that it is like a career in acting. Sure, there's the super stars at the top who are doing extremely well for themselves but then pretty much everyone else is struggling just to feed their families.
You've got chemists coming out of the gate making almost 70k a year, moving up to 120k a year as their career progresses. Oh, and by the way, physicists and materials people would probably be making more in the USA if there was more domestic manufacturing. Don't need too many physicists if your economy is based on bad banking and real estate. Think about that, when you decide which car to buy. [hint buy made-in-usa]
So, how many years of training do you need to work on a factory floor?
Obviously a lot more than the academic or managerial world gives credit for, as those companies that work on creating a positive and empowering culture for those so called drones tend to be the ones that succeed.
Dude, you have are crazy. You have no idea how cushy you have it and your whining is an insult to everyone else that pays taxes to support you guys - on everything from student loan guarantees, federal grants, and more. How much does NSF get a year? Plus the right to patent the stuff the gov't pays you to research.
If you think being a scientist sucks, try working on a factory floor. Everyone works crazy hours with no holidays, scientist or no. You talk about having a pension problem with the university? Man, people get no pensions at all. We got worthless 401ks and bogus T-Bills on our end! You talk about working two years on an experiment to find out your hypothesis is wrong? Cry me a river. There's tons of people that work for two years, five years, ten years, pitching in to build up a business, and then they'll get bumped out on the street because some jackass guy in bufukistan can do it cheaper.
To be honest, I do not even get angry anymore when I suspect someone may have done something "questionable". It's just sad
Then you are part of the problem. If you get angry at why the public has lost its faith in science, there's your answer.
I'd like to see independent print for computer magazines, or really, any print. Print is special.
To answer those critics about why this or that media is failing, it is the content, not the media. Good content will succeed almost independently of the format that it is in.
Computer magazines were vibrant, personal and entertaining right up until big publishers like Ziff Davis and McGraw Hill started moving in and changing their formats. One has to wonder where Compute!, Creative Computing and BYTE would be if they had stayed focused on their hobbyist roots. But, the editors of thought that their existing readership would continue if they changed to be PC clone reviewers, rather than the more electronic tinkering types. No wonder all these magazines ultimately failed. Similarly, newspapers take a beating because they thought that, geez, all those old fuddy duddys that bought old fashioned newspapers and read them Sunday morning over coffee before church would keep renewing if they started printing that church sucked and coffee was evil.
Capitalism has evolved to a point where publishers can no longer treat their customers like commodities for which writers may be interchanged. You have to know your audience, have a relationship with it, share its values, and you have to serve it. Any media that does that it is successful, and anyone that doesn't fails.
I'm working on my game, called Titanographic, and it requires a 16GB graphics card. Ho hum, I guess I'll have to wait another fews years before I can release it!
Frankly, I think it's a bit dangerous. I come from a city that has a terrible large newspaper
So does everyone, that's why they are all going out of business. Anyway, people don't see the need for newspapers because there are so many other sources of news. There's radio, tv, the internet. The other thing too is that newspapers are probably far too general in content. If you want news specific to your industry, then there are places you go to get it and those places most certainly charge.
The only reason newspapers have even survived is because they have been a traditional thing more than a useful one for the last 50 years, and they alienated their predominantly conservative customers. It's one thing to have a Philly Inquirer delivered because your grandfather got it, but once they start ripping conservatives all the time, its like why read this crap?
I would think that if you are looking at C++ in Windows that you would probably consider using GDI+ as the basis for an SVG style render. GDI+ fits in nicely with Windows DC model, but is very cleanly object oriented.
And um, I would think that, by its nature, SVG is not going to be all that small....
It's pretty rare that submarines are identified through active pinging, because, once you ping, everyone knows where you are. Instead you try and listen for other people, and that means machinery and cavitation. I could see using this technology to dampen expected sounds from internal machinery, but that would only work so long as the machinery actually makes predictable sound and one has to wonder if this technology would actually be better at damping than other technology. In any case, its certainly not going to hide that propeller!
I think it is an absolute disgrace that the USA is a junior ITER partner and is not building its own ITER reactor. Yes, its billions of dollars, but the prize is priceless. Americans have the money to do this. If we could cut a sliver of medicare and defense, and maybe have a tax structure in place so that we don't have to borrow a trillion dollars every time corporate and capital gains taxes plunge in a recession, then, we could easily fund the kind of research into fusion that can get the job done.
I think the only way to get there is to build a new fusion plant every few years, expecting each to actually fail, but gaining lessons from it to apply to the next one that we will build. If we don't have the answers to all the physics problems, guess, and learn from it. Trying to figure out everything before hand is just impossible in a task this complex. We need to build, fail, learn, and keep building. This is how we learned to do everything else, from flying, to cars, to spacecraft, and even to operating systems and computer software.
Having MS Office and IE objects be scriptable via COM is one of the great success stories in Windows. It's funny though, now that everyone in the Windows world has moved on from Office scripting, everyone in the Linux world, who used to mock interpreted language bindings, suddenly now has to have it.
The democrats owe their political power to people who believe in science. The republicans owe their political power to people who believe in God
Actually, no. Democrats owe their political power to a bunch of crackheads and illiterates, coupled with a few international media corporations and of course, universities and investment banks. Republicans owe their political power to a bunch of farmers, owners of mining, oil drilling and manufacturing concerns. So pretty much Democrats are essentially internationalist social parasites, and Republicans are a bunch of morons that are in favor of free trade when it slits their own throat.
The whole God thing is how Republicans attracts some of the low income people that it does. But I argue on my site that we in the GOP need to go nationalistic and offer protection for manufacturing jobs, and make Democrats be the party that argues for foreign interests over American ones.
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Perhaps it operates more efficiently, but it doesn't sound like it is so efficient to produce. Unless I'm misunderstanding or misrepresenting the verbiage from the summary.
You forgot that femtosecond part. The usage of the whole USA grid is for an incredibly tiny fraction of a second, 10^15 of a second. The USA grid is 4x10^15 watts. So really, if you want to translate it into a more sane energy understanding, its about four watts per bulb to do this.
I find it interesting that our Supreme Court Nominee was not part of this ruling. In fact, the 2nd circuit is making a lot of important rulings - they also established legal precedent in the Google Adwords trademark violation case, and some stuff about trademarks and internet before that. But I don't see her opinion on -any- of them. Maybe we should appoint the judge whose opinion this is?
Which three numbers would those be?
It ought to be pretty obvious to all of us that the middle number is inevitably 42.
10) We did not destroy ourselves in a holocaust by 1960, by 1980, or by 2000, as many sci-fi writers have depicted.
9) In 'Future World" marketing shows, the man watched black and white TV or listened to the radio after he got home from work while the woman cleaned and made tv dinners. Now, men can play xbox 360 all day because the women cook and clean, AND have a job.
8) The biggest alien species we have possibly countered so far is a couple of dents on the size of a martian meteor.
7) Automation has made consumer products that we know better, and allowed for the use of new ones. Seriously, have you seen the documentary about the construction of an aluminum block for an engine? There's no way a human could cut with the tolerances and precision that these machines gave, and they didn't. Reliability is much, much better.
6) Materials are better. Man, they thought the future of everything was going to be stainless steel. Now, we can consumer products made from titanium. How cool is that?
5) Dual metal steak knives as seen on TV are frankly of a better quality than some of the finest japanese swords from the samurai era. The steel on the back is better, the forging is more consistent, the sharp end has a better grade of metal...
3) We have more and better food than we could have ever had before.
2) Our computers are hands down better than the computers depicted in the Star Trek, TOS, and in fact, are better than any computer depicted in any sci-fi medium or promise before then.
1) This is a great time for whiskey. American and Scottish producers are producing wonderful, wonderful spirits these days.
It just cost us tens trillion dollars to figure out that 30 years of free trading investment oriented capitalism wrecks your manufacturing base, leaves your country hopelessly in debt, and all these so-called free enterprise guys bitching about the UAW making 40k a year are actually not so free enterprise after all, when it comes to bailing them out, or protecting their businesses.
***Use Gaussian if you have an idea of what the parameter probably is but aren't exactly sure, rectangular if you really have no idea. A rectangular distribution says "I have no idea, the parameter could be anywhere within this particular range."
Guassian : So, make up three numbers, and assume that the middle number is -really- most likely.
Rectangular : make up two numbers, assuming that any number in between them is good.
In which case you will be doing the kind of work that people who make 500 grand a year do
ROTFLOL. Yes, but they dress more nicely.
Your CO2 example is not so good, you are forgetting that the "model" part of the term "computer model" has nothing to do with software. I don't think it's an exageragion to say that if you had a convincing model that showed where Tyndal and/or Fourier fucked up then people would be throwing money at you
And that's actually an understatement, and the fact that such a model does not exist, despite the obvious ticket to instant fame and fortune, tends to be the ultimate achilles heel in any argument of a GW denier. If they don't believe in the model that shows CO2 causes global warming, then, where's their alternative model that can be tested?
No, actually it would. While I6 BMW engine gets just over 300 ponies, an American V8 as found in the Pontiac G8 GXP can make about 420hp. And, it doesn't sound like shit while doing so. 4 cylinder and 6 cylinder engines sound like crap, especially at low rpms.
That might make sense if EU automotive companies were breaking US law and needed to be punished for it in a way that would encourage them to stop breaking the law and remedy the damage done.
At this level, the law doesn't matter. I'm actually in favor of banning most imports to the USA, so, at least in my book, the very fact that a BMW or a Mercedes is even allowed to exist in the USA is a gift to the German people.
Quants only produce models that act in the way that traders expect, and traders do not want bad news. I've done a small bit of modelling before and you always reach a point where there's this one number that is completely made up, and you kinda set things up so the trader makes the call. In this sense, all these models that everyone talks about are not so much as analysis tools as they are communications tools - you sorta code the insight of the trader as to how he or she thinks the market will move. It's a very human business, not one of a bunch of computers run amok. Quants that say otherwise are just full of themselves...
Working 2 years and producing a strong negative result is good science, but it doesnt get you published in a good journal.
My point is that it is a general statement of the human condition that you have to be right. You can work for two years and produce a strong negative result in any field of life. To create a product and release it, is, ultimately, an experiment. If I spend two years working on a product, then sell it, and find out x,y,z is wrong with it. Will I have learned a lot? Yes. But, it doesn't help pay the bills. Makes no difference in science, or the real world.
Indeed, if someone did spend two years researching something and then finding out that their model was wrong in some way, I'd be willing to bet that there are a dozen other scientists saying, "well, I could have told you so.", just as much as there are in any other field.
You have to be right.
The last thing a consumer wants to do, when they turn on a computer, is to immediately be asked more questions. It's a pain in the rear. Sorry EU, but how about we start requiring that all cars imported from the EU to the USA have the option of being fitted with American V8s....
oh wait, that sounds like a good a idea.
Never mind.
The problem with a career in science is that it is like a career in acting. Sure, there's the super stars at the top who are doing extremely well for themselves but then pretty much everyone else is struggling just to feed their families.
Salaries for Chemists
Geology
You've got chemists coming out of the gate making almost 70k a year, moving up to 120k a year as their career progresses. Oh, and by the way, physicists and materials people would probably be making more in the USA if there was more domestic manufacturing. Don't need too many physicists if your economy is based on bad banking and real estate. Think about that, when you decide which car to buy. [hint buy made-in-usa]
So, how many years of training do you need to work on a factory floor?
Obviously a lot more than the academic or managerial world gives credit for, as those companies that work on creating a positive and empowering culture for those so called drones tend to be the ones that succeed.
you actually have to treat your scientist well.
Dude, you have are crazy. You have no idea how cushy you have it and your whining is an insult to everyone else that pays taxes to support you guys - on everything from student loan guarantees, federal grants, and more. How much does NSF get a year? Plus the right to patent the stuff the gov't pays you to research.
If you think being a scientist sucks, try working on a factory floor. Everyone works crazy hours with no holidays, scientist or no. You talk about having a pension problem with the university? Man, people get no pensions at all. We got worthless 401ks and bogus T-Bills on our end! You talk about working two years on an experiment to find out your hypothesis is wrong? Cry me a river. There's tons of people that work for two years, five years, ten years, pitching in to build up a business, and then they'll get bumped out on the street because some jackass guy in bufukistan can do it cheaper.
To be honest, I do not even get angry anymore when I suspect someone may have done something "questionable". It's just sad
Then you are part of the problem. If you get angry at why the public has lost its faith in science, there's your answer.
I'd like to see independent print for computer magazines, or really, any print. Print is special.
To answer those critics about why this or that media is failing, it is the content, not the media. Good content will succeed almost independently of the format that it is in.
Computer magazines were vibrant, personal and entertaining right up until big publishers like Ziff Davis and McGraw Hill started moving in and changing their formats. One has to wonder where Compute!, Creative Computing and BYTE would be if they had stayed focused on their hobbyist roots. But, the editors of thought that their existing readership would continue if they changed to be PC clone reviewers, rather than the more electronic tinkering types. No wonder all these magazines ultimately failed. Similarly, newspapers take a beating because they thought that, geez, all those old fuddy duddys that bought old fashioned newspapers and read them Sunday morning over coffee before church would keep renewing if they started printing that church sucked and coffee was evil.
Capitalism has evolved to a point where publishers can no longer treat their customers like commodities for which writers may be interchanged. You have to know your audience, have a relationship with it, share its values, and you have to serve it. Any media that does that it is successful, and anyone that doesn't fails.
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I'm working on my game, called Titanographic, and it requires a 16GB graphics card. Ho hum, I guess I'll have to wait another fews years before I can release it!
helo just dumped in the water then active sonar is much more of a concern
Boy that's a good point. I did not think of that and its obvious. Great job A/C!
Frankly, I think it's a bit dangerous. I come from a city that has a terrible large newspaper
So does everyone, that's why they are all going out of business. Anyway, people don't see the need for newspapers because there are so many other sources of news. There's radio, tv, the internet. The other thing too is that newspapers are probably far too general in content. If you want news specific to your industry, then there are places you go to get it and those places most certainly charge.
The only reason newspapers have even survived is because they have been a traditional thing more than a useful one for the last 50 years, and they alienated their predominantly conservative customers. It's one thing to have a Philly Inquirer delivered because your grandfather got it, but once they start ripping conservatives all the time, its like why read this crap?
I would think that if you are looking at C++ in Windows that you would probably consider using GDI+ as the basis for an SVG style render. GDI+ fits in nicely with Windows DC model, but is very cleanly object oriented.
And um, I would think that, by its nature, SVG is not going to be all that small....
It's pretty rare that submarines are identified through active pinging, because, once you ping, everyone knows where you are. Instead you try and listen for other people, and that means machinery and cavitation. I could see using this technology to dampen expected sounds from internal machinery, but that would only work so long as the machinery actually makes predictable sound and one has to wonder if this technology would actually be better at damping than other technology. In any case, its certainly not going to hide that propeller!
I think it is an absolute disgrace that the USA is a junior ITER partner and is not building its own ITER reactor. Yes, its billions of dollars, but the prize is priceless. Americans have the money to do this. If we could cut a sliver of medicare and defense, and maybe have a tax structure in place so that we don't have to borrow a trillion dollars every time corporate and capital gains taxes plunge in a recession, then, we could easily fund the kind of research into fusion that can get the job done.
I think the only way to get there is to build a new fusion plant every few years, expecting each to actually fail, but gaining lessons from it to apply to the next one that we will build. If we don't have the answers to all the physics problems, guess, and learn from it. Trying to figure out everything before hand is just impossible in a task this complex. We need to build, fail, learn, and keep building. This is how we learned to do everything else, from flying, to cars, to spacecraft, and even to operating systems and computer software.
Having MS Office and IE objects be scriptable via COM is one of the great success stories in Windows. It's funny though, now that everyone in the Windows world has moved on from Office scripting, everyone in the Linux world, who used to mock interpreted language bindings, suddenly now has to have it.
This whole "K" thing has gone on too far. Sounds like a "K" iddie Mar"K"eting effort, and undermines everything they do.
I wish they would do something with KDevelop.
The democrats owe their political power to people who believe in science. The republicans owe their political power to people who believe in God
Actually, no. Democrats owe their political power to a bunch of crackheads and illiterates, coupled with a few international media corporations and of course, universities and investment banks. Republicans owe their political power to a bunch of farmers, owners of mining, oil drilling and manufacturing concerns. So pretty much Democrats are essentially internationalist social parasites, and Republicans are a bunch of morons that are in favor of free trade when it slits their own throat.
The whole God thing is how Republicans attracts some of the low income people that it does. But I argue on my site that we in the GOP need to go nationalistic and offer protection for manufacturing jobs, and make Democrats be the party that argues for foreign interests over American ones.