No he's not an asshole. He's being realistic, and he's trying to prevent people suffering from this disease from getting their hopes up too high. The fact that a smart kid did well at a science fair is not front page news (except on slashdot).
if he is such a genius, he'd be able to describe his idea clearly.
but he's only a man with an idea stuck in his head. he lacks the ability to describe his idea, and so makes up nonsense words to fill in the blanks.
i mean, wouldn't "source link" be easier for everyone to understand than "transclusion"? a source link is a link to the source, whereas a transclusion is...
Has this guy ever looked at wikipedia? it's exactly as he describes, except without the side-by-side aspect, which i think most people would turn off pretty quickly.
If this replaced the majority of the modern day internet, it would be completely worthless. every line you scrolled down would be a transcluded ad, mangled to fit in with the main content. after all, who decides where the links lead; the author or the reader? you would still have the problem of search, and every document would be information overload.
in the end, all these high concept ideas would get distilled down to something similar to what we have today.
If everyone eventually stopped using petroleum in our cars, there would still be a huge petroleum industry cranking out plastics and jetfuel. I'd (wildly) guess that the industry would contract ~80%.
Even then, i think airlines will transition to biofuel mixes. biofuels are generally a stupid idea, but they do make sense for jet engines. airlines will like that the biofuel costs will be much more predictable over a long time period, which will lead to stable per seat costs, and prices might even go down slightly relative to inflation.
The IEEE is in no rush to finalize the standard, and the companies are in no rush to produce products, so once again it's up to the open source community to get this started.
Wrong. a ten year old computer is exactly the same as a ten year old car. It has many mechanical parts that wear out and fail. Dust will get in and foul the fans and heatsinks, causing them to overheat (yes, even with regular cleanings). Dust will also bridge contacts, causing shorts. random cosmic rays will flip bits in your memory and hard drives. capacitors, even, blow at an alarming rate.
ten years is 87,658 hours of likely continuous operation. that's ~28 billion revolutions of your hard drive.
The bottom line is that a ten year old computer is a fire hazard. Even if it still 'works', every day it is in your office increases your risk of a business-destroying fire.
No mater what we use to do your orbital calculations- whether in your head, pen and paper, slide rule, calculator, or computer program- We won't get anywhere in this solar system if we forget which measuring system we are using. Numbers only get us half way there; the rest is context.
why not two tests: one without a calculator, and one with a full-on computer?
testing without the calculator tests mental calculation prowess, while testing with modern tools tests command of concepts (and displays expertise real world situations).
In the "real" world, the really smart people have to pretend to be stupider than they are, lest those unworthy rise to the top on their coattails. -or- In the "real" world, the really smart people avoid risk and rise to the top on the coattails of those naive enough to take the lead.
Local monopolies prevent most of us from having any choice in the matter. the only time you can really choose is when you are looking for a new apartment or house.
With the cost of pc being so low, it's pretty hard to ever justify taking a system to a professional fixer. Most people just decide it's time to upgrade and throw out the old system.
Now, some people genuinely need a new computer as the last time they've upgraded was 2001, but most of those parts are more than usable.
i have lots of good, usable parts left over from upgrades. Eventually, i put enough parts together to reassemble the system and pass on to a relative, which always ends up being an upgrade for them. For those systems, I give free support, since i don't want to see a good, usable computer end up in a landfill. for everyone else i expect something, and charge by how much i like them or how much work it will be for me.
The key here is heat is a very tricky thing, and there are multiple ways it is transmitted. Wood is a good insulator, but compared to what? metal?
what if you compare wood to air? air is a much better insulator, but it tends to move around and to bump into other air, which moves the heat around.
Glass is a good insulator too. many of you probably melted glass tubing in one of your science classes in High school (probably chemistry). you were holding in your uninsulated hand a glass tube that melts at ~1500 degrees C. However, glass is also transparent, and infrared light moves easily through glass. well actually it's absorbed pretty quickly, but it moves farther in glass than in wood. So its actually insulative properties are weird, and based somewhat on the optical structure formed by the shape of the glass.
Aerogel is 99.9% air, but prevents the air from convecting inside the structure with the remaining.1%, which is why it's such a good insulator. it is also a strong infrared absorber, which cuts down on heat transfer even more. That is what makes it such a good insulator.
look, they have access to every email that gmail users send. If Google want's private information, they have more than enough for any evil thing they want to do. A couple of sniffed WiFi packets, or a couple of SSN's is just a drop in a very, very large bucket.
they aren't going to actually reuse the ISS, btw. They just put that in the article for people with no imagination, for which every modular spacecraft looks like the ISS. A truss, with a VASIMR and a bunch of Bigalow inflatable modules attached is what they are proposing, as a lunar transfer ferry.
That might (probably will) happen SOME day, but i doubt by 2020.
at the very least, let me vote at any polling location. that kind of convenience might require an ID check so they can pull up my ballot for my location, but if i don't want an ID check, i can go to my regular poling place.
tablets should be priced around $200 or less. the only reason they are so expensive is as a price premium for early adopters. just wait two years and an adequate (as in totally usable with minor issues) android tablet will be dirt cheap.
Just because your referencing twitter doesn't mean you have to throw @'s and #'s in front of everything. At the same time they neglected any useful punctuation.
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No he's not an asshole. He's being realistic, and he's trying to prevent people suffering from this disease from getting their hopes up too high. The fact that a smart kid did well at a science fair is not front page news (except on slashdot).
so you propose we just give them $75 million and walk away? What's wrong with making sure everyone is on the same page?
if he is such a genius, he'd be able to describe his idea clearly.
but he's only a man with an idea stuck in his head. he lacks the ability to describe his idea, and so makes up nonsense words to fill in the blanks.
i mean, wouldn't "source link" be easier for everyone to understand than "transclusion"? a source link is a link to the source, whereas a transclusion is ...
Has this guy ever looked at wikipedia? it's exactly as he describes, except without the side-by-side aspect, which i think most people would turn off pretty quickly.
If this replaced the majority of the modern day internet, it would be completely worthless. every line you scrolled down would be a transcluded ad, mangled to fit in with the main content. after all, who decides where the links lead; the author or the reader? you would still have the problem of search, and every document would be information overload.
in the end, all these high concept ideas would get distilled down to something similar to what we have today.
If everyone eventually stopped using petroleum in our cars, there would still be a huge petroleum industry cranking out plastics and jetfuel. I'd (wildly) guess that the industry would contract ~80%.
Even then, i think airlines will transition to biofuel mixes. biofuels are generally a stupid idea, but they do make sense for jet engines. airlines will like that the biofuel costs will be much more predictable over a long time period, which will lead to stable per seat costs, and prices might even go down slightly relative to inflation.
Help support the open802.11s project to bring mesh wifi to linux
http://open80211s.org/
The IEEE is in no rush to finalize the standard, and the companies are in no rush to produce products, so once again it's up to the open source community to get this started.
Wrong. a ten year old computer is exactly the same as a ten year old car. It has many mechanical parts that wear out and fail. Dust will get in and foul the fans and heatsinks, causing them to overheat (yes, even with regular cleanings). Dust will also bridge contacts, causing shorts. random cosmic rays will flip bits in your memory and hard drives. capacitors, even, blow at an alarming rate.
ten years is 87,658 hours of likely continuous operation. that's ~28 billion revolutions of your hard drive.
The bottom line is that a ten year old computer is a fire hazard. Even if it still 'works', every day it is in your office increases your risk of a business-destroying fire.
John Carmack did this ~ten years ago, but never released it, saying it was too slow (at the time) to be used in any ID games.
it's the parallax effect, which was also used in the 2D Duke nukem games 20 years ago.
but yeah, Johnny Chung Lee made it one of the best implementations i've seen so far, using a wii sensor bar and some IR LEDs.
it is a much more convincing form of glasses-free 3d, and it doesn't give you headaches from eye strain
No mater what we use to do your orbital calculations- whether in your head, pen and paper, slide rule, calculator, or computer program- We won't get anywhere in this solar system if we forget which measuring system we are using. Numbers only get us half way there; the rest is context.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter#Communications_loss
In America, the goal of schooling, as a policy, is to increase the earning power of the student.
There are few reasons for education in a capitalists society other than to prevent unrest, grow GDP, and teach financial competence.
why not two tests: one without a calculator, and one with a full-on computer?
testing without the calculator tests mental calculation prowess, while testing with modern tools tests command of concepts (and displays expertise real world situations).
In the "real" world, the really smart people have to pretend to be stupider than they are, lest those unworthy rise to the top on their coattails.
-or-
In the "real" world, the really smart people avoid risk and rise to the top on the coattails of those naive enough to take the lead.
Trapped by xkcd
http://xkcd.com/876/
So now we'll have to get a group of people together to verify all that science. Then they can tell us what to believe.
Wait.....?
So I guess it's like how dentist understand their patients when they have their hands and tools in their mouths.
Local monopolies prevent most of us from having any choice in the matter. the only time you can really choose is when you are looking for a new apartment or house.
With the cost of pc being so low, it's pretty hard to ever justify taking a system to a professional fixer. Most people just decide it's time to upgrade and throw out the old system.
Now, some people genuinely need a new computer as the last time they've upgraded was 2001, but most of those parts are more than usable.
i have lots of good, usable parts left over from upgrades. Eventually, i put enough parts together to reassemble the system and pass on to a relative, which always ends up being an upgrade for them. For those systems, I give free support, since i don't want to see a good, usable computer end up in a landfill. for everyone else i expect something, and charge by how much i like them or how much work it will be for me.
The key here is heat is a very tricky thing, and there are multiple ways it is transmitted. Wood is a good insulator, but compared to what? metal?
what if you compare wood to air? air is a much better insulator, but it tends to move around and to bump into other air, which moves the heat around.
Glass is a good insulator too. many of you probably melted glass tubing in one of your science classes in High school (probably chemistry). you were holding in your uninsulated hand a glass tube that melts at ~1500 degrees C. However, glass is also transparent, and infrared light moves easily through glass. well actually it's absorbed pretty quickly, but it moves farther in glass than in wood. So its actually insulative properties are weird, and based somewhat on the optical structure formed by the shape of the glass.
Aerogel is 99.9% air, but prevents the air from convecting inside the structure with the remaining .1%, which is why it's such a good insulator. it is also a strong infrared absorber, which cuts down on heat transfer even more. That is what makes it such a good insulator.
look, they have access to every email that gmail users send. If Google want's private information, they have more than enough for any evil thing they want to do. A couple of sniffed WiFi packets, or a couple of SSN's is just a drop in a very, very large bucket.
they aren't going to actually reuse the ISS, btw. They just put that in the article for people with no imagination, for which every modular spacecraft looks like the ISS.
A truss, with a VASIMR and a bunch of Bigalow inflatable modules attached is what they are proposing, as a lunar transfer ferry.
That might (probably will) happen SOME day, but i doubt by 2020.
seriously, it would be great, but it's not going to happen at that cost, in that time frame.
at best, Ad Astra will be allowed to put a VASIMR on it and boost it to a geosync orbit.
I just don't understand the paranoia.
at the very least, let me vote at any polling location. that kind of convenience might require an ID check so they can pull up my ballot for my location, but if i don't want an ID check, i can go to my regular poling place.
I think we all know why you shouldn't reboot: It cuts power to the velociraptor cages.
tablets should be priced around $200 or less. the only reason they are so expensive is as a price premium for early adopters. just wait two years and an adequate (as in totally usable with minor issues) android tablet will be dirt cheap.
Just because your referencing twitter doesn't mean you have to throw @'s and #'s in front of everything. At the same time they neglected any useful punctuation.
I am NOT a grammar nazi but I do have my limits.