If you're going to deal with all the privacy implications of this tech, is this expensive machine any better than a pat-down? you would have to train and pay a human either way.
New York and California also have many many more people than Arkansas. This could either make these places more attractive to aliens, or maybe the ratio of alien sighters is the same but there are more of them because of population density.
Some numbers from Wolfram alpha (for what they are worth): Arkansas- population- 2.85 mil density- 51.3 people/mi^2 Norway- population- 4.7 mil density- 39.6 people/mi^2 New York- population- 8.36 mil density- 401.9 people/mi^2 California- population- 36.7 mil density- 217.2 people/mi^2
Germany is at a higher latitude than New Jersey, and so gets less solar radiation per square meter, yet they produce more of their energy from solar then the whole of the USA.
The only problem with NJ is that they require you to be a licensed electrician to install the systems. I can understand having an electrician inspect your work, and doing the actual tie-in to the utility, but this shuts out many DIY projects. and since labor costs amount to about 50% of the total cost, DIY can save you significant money. Imagine if you needed an electrician to inspect your self assembled computer before you plugged it into the wall.
That being said, I'm taking an installer class in NY state (where the requirements for installing are different for each municipality). Properly sizing and planing a rooftop solar array is not something that can/should be done solely by a layman. In fact the first thing we learned it how to inspect a roof structure to determine if it is suitable for installing panels. If a homeowner needs to spend $15000 on a new roof, there goes the budget for solar panels. Also, in order to get the incentives states offer, you'll need to strictly follow their rules, which few layman will be able to wade through.
BTW everyone should check their ACTUAL $/kWh on their electric bill. do this by diving the kWh used by your bill total. you'll find that it is more than the advertised rate, because it includes infrastructure costs and other stuff. Most electricity around NJ/NY will cost about $0.18-0.40/kWh, which is much more than the $0.04-0.08 that you usually hear about in the news. At 40 cents per kWh, Solar can become very economical.
A TV is a stationary device. Why would you need wireless power for anything other than cosmetics? Wouldn't it just be better to put an outlet behind your wall mounting bracket?
I can see this in a parking spaces for electric cars, so you don't have cables running all over the parking lot of a mall. Or for small devices that don't need much power but would be a pain to power with batteries, like LED track lighting or security webcams or smoke detectors.
Big, rarely moved devices don't sound practical. after all, if your going to use this for a TV, why not a microwave or a fridge?
This is a great idea but the difficulty is in solving n-body problems incorporating all the gravitational bodies in the solar system.
Even finding the Lagrange points between the earth, sun, and moon is very difficult. Throw in all the other moons and planets and you have a even harder task on your hands.
They could have just given those who go paperless a $1.50 credit, and then in a years time raise the plan rates by $1.50 Why is it that companies do the stupid thing in an invisible, underhanded way, and the smart things in a way most likely to prompt a customer backlash?
Why would Sony care about 3d TV? They don't make any money from TV content. They DO have 3D content, though, that they're creating for theaters. Why throw away all that work perfecting the 3rd dimension when you have plenty of space on a BlueRay disc?
So they sell 3D TVs, blueray players, and 3D movies. TV comes later, if ever.
The girl in the video looks like she is walking awkwardly. At one point she stumbles when stepping off the curb. Her hips move much more then those of the men beside her, and it seems like this might not be a unisex type of device.
I know that makers of high end hiking backpacks have male and female versions because of the different physiology between the sexes. It would seem that exoskeletons would also will have to be customized for a specific body shape and sex.
tying into your plumbing would be easier. it's basically the same effect, and won't require the whole loop nonsense.
after all, the pipes that bring water into your house run underground for miles, or at least bring up well water that is ground temperature anyway.
I would think that the concrete would warm up after a while and decrease efficiency of cooling. if you had running tap water your cold side of the system would remain at a ~50-55 degrees all the time. better watch your water bill, though.
Dumping sewage into rivers was a working system too, until Government went and "broke" it. Think of all of that productivity lost to treating sewage that could be used to build more margaritaville machines.
That Majority opinion comes about through peer review. It's one of the core tenets of scientific study. Scientists have to DO something with all those facts and numbers they gather (i.e. come to a conclusion that others can agree with).
I can collect a lots of knowledge and come to conclusions that might be solid and reasonable within my own mind, but that doesn't make it true or real. I'd only know it was true if i compared my numbers and conclusions with someone else's. That is science. IT IS consensus.
uh and why do you say that? Where in the link you provide does it say that they aren't paid by oil companies (since we're being all scientific here)? Who are these MEMBERS? It could be two guys, it could be a hundred.
And you are claiming that the APS refutes anthropogenic climate change? Their statement, at the link you provided, actually reinforces their stand that CC IS caused by man made emissions. That these MEMBERS disagree with the APS's statement is of no consequence.
If I write a letter to the pope that says "We, the members of the Holy Roman Catholic Church, Hate God, so please change your policy toward God accordingly," that doesn't mean the Church or its members hates God.
I say bring the trial on. lets get everyone cards on the table.
Where is the evidence that global warming is NOT caused by man? There is plenty of evidence that can back up the theory that man (i.e. gas emissions) most likely is the cause. Show me the peer review studies that point to another cause. That does not mean studies that try to disprove anthropomorphic CC, but studies that actually have evidence that there is another cause.
While diamond is a great choice for thermal grease, the heat sink used still has a copper block. with a thermal conductivity less than that of silver, it would seem that you would see little to no gain in heat conductivity as the copper is already 'saturated'.
With the cure being apathy and indifference to the world around you, of course. 'Cause it's so difficult to make decisions and have an opinion, you know? It's much easier to change the channel and put on some Perfect Strangers or TMZ. That Balki, eh? What a character!
it's really not that expensive. it's the retraining doctors and staff. an office that works with paper has to be efficient and highly conditioned. when you take away the paper and reorganize the whole flow of data, it can cripple what was a working system.
it's totally worth it, though. survival of the fittest. I won't go to a doctors office that doesn't use EMR.
There have got to be some roads that need to be paved, or the library could always use more books. At most, a small town needs a well organized and moderated forum. maybe throw in some social networking juju, but avatars?
There are some successful virtual worlds out there, which, despite their success, I have no interest in visiting. Their effort will be crappy, buggy, pointless, and empty.
The only use I could imagine using this for would be to walk down, virtually, to the mayors house and scream obscenities at it. Add to that a swarm of flying penises and maybe they've won me over.
CO2 causes oceanic acidification. If you've ever owned a fish tank, you know how important pH is to keeping fish alive. Shellfish and Coral reefs will dissolve if it get's to acidic. So CO2 IS pollution.
Also, CO2 is a greenhouse gas. At some level, it will have an effect on the climate, either through self-regulating mechanisms like critics claim, or through feedback mechanisms. Either one is unpredictable and scary were they to happen in the short term. So, again, CO2 IS DEFIANTLY pollution.
If you say that C02 at it's current level isn't pollution, you've got an argument we might be able to work with. But at some level, CO2 is a very bad thing.
OK, The graph you link to has it's last data point at 1950. On the graph, CO2 never gets above 300 ppm going back 400,000 years. Your graph also shows a strong correlation between CO2 levels and global temperature.
Why be so strict with the pattern? I'm terrible at math, but I know that there are many many patters that 6 people can form. Just throw the ball around between the 6 of them to establish a pattern for the session. Then all any individual has to do is remember who threw the ball to them and who to throw it to next. It's simple, but if you add more balls, you have to throw and prepare to catch quicker and quicker, with the goal being to keep the flow going for as long as possible. If it's too easy, just add more balls.
My friends used to play this game in our dorm room. We called it 'catapult' for some reason. It accommodated any number of people and was very simple to understand, so newcomers were easily integrated into the group. There were often mid-air collisions as the streams crossed, and everyone would cry out like it was Jenga or something. It would be perfect for space, as I bet you could form some pretty cool patterns by tossing the balls down corridors and then circling through more open spaces!!
Also, we often used balled up socks as balls, so astronauts wouldn't need to bring additional balls.
Speaking of corridors, we also used to play a game in the hallways. We used a klutz product called a Foxtail, which is just a rubber ball with a tail attached. 1 person stood at each end of our hallway, which was maybe 40' long. The goal was to throw the Foxtail and try to get it to hit the wall behind the other player. The trick was that if it hit the wall or ceiling, it lost lots of momentum or ricocheted so it was much easier to block. BTW we threw the ball by holding the end of the tail and swinging it vertically, keeping it low, like waist level, so that when released it arced up from our feet and passed the other player as high as possible. You only got one throw per turn, but the ball often clipped the ground because you were trying to keep it so low to the ground to get the best trajectory. We called this one 'foxtrot.' good times, good times.
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If you're going to deal with all the privacy implications of this tech, is this expensive machine any better than a pat-down?
you would have to train and pay a human either way.
New York and California also have many many more people than Arkansas. This could either make these places more attractive to aliens, or maybe the ratio of alien sighters is the same but there are more of them because of population density.
Some numbers from Wolfram alpha (for what they are worth):
Arkansas-
population- 2.85 mil
density- 51.3 people/mi^2
Norway-
population- 4.7 mil
density- 39.6 people/mi^2
New York-
population- 8.36 mil
density- 401.9 people/mi^2
California-
population- 36.7 mil
density- 217.2 people/mi^2
Maybe THAT's what all those people were doing when that crazy lady threw the sledgehammer through the screen.
Germany is at a higher latitude than New Jersey, and so gets less solar radiation per square meter, yet they produce more of their energy from solar then the whole of the USA.
The only problem with NJ is that they require you to be a licensed electrician to install the systems. I can understand having an electrician inspect your work, and doing the actual tie-in to the utility, but this shuts out many DIY projects. and since labor costs amount to about 50% of the total cost, DIY can save you significant money. Imagine if you needed an electrician to inspect your self assembled computer before you plugged it into the wall.
That being said, I'm taking an installer class in NY state (where the requirements for installing are different for each municipality). Properly sizing and planing a rooftop solar array is not something that can/should be done solely by a layman. In fact the first thing we learned it how to inspect a roof structure to determine if it is suitable for installing panels. If a homeowner needs to spend $15000 on a new roof, there goes the budget for solar panels. Also, in order to get the incentives states offer, you'll need to strictly follow their rules, which few layman will be able to wade through.
BTW everyone should check their ACTUAL $/kWh on their electric bill. do this by diving the kWh used by your bill total. you'll find that it is more than the advertised rate, because it includes infrastructure costs and other stuff. Most electricity around NJ/NY will cost about $0.18-0.40/kWh, which is much more than the $0.04-0.08 that you usually hear about in the news. At 40 cents per kWh, Solar can become very economical.
A TV is a stationary device. Why would you need wireless power for anything other than cosmetics? Wouldn't it just be better to put an outlet behind your wall mounting bracket?
I can see this in a parking spaces for electric cars, so you don't have cables running all over the parking lot of a mall. Or for small devices that don't need much power but would be a pain to power with batteries, like LED track lighting or security webcams or smoke detectors.
Big, rarely moved devices don't sound practical. after all, if your going to use this for a TV, why not a microwave or a fridge?
This is a great idea but the difficulty is in solving n-body problems incorporating all the gravitational bodies in the solar system.
Even finding the Lagrange points between the earth, sun, and moon is very difficult. Throw in all the other moons and planets and you have a even harder task on your hands.
They could have just given those who go paperless a $1.50 credit, and then in a years time raise the plan rates by $1.50
Why is it that companies do the stupid thing in an invisible, underhanded way, and the smart things in a way most likely to prompt a customer backlash?
Why would Sony care about 3d TV? They don't make any money from TV content.
They DO have 3D content, though, that they're creating for theaters. Why throw away all that work perfecting the 3rd dimension when you have plenty of space on a BlueRay disc?
So they sell 3D TVs, blueray players, and 3D movies. TV comes later, if ever.
The girl in the video looks like she is walking awkwardly. At one point she stumbles when stepping off the curb. Her hips move much more then those of the men beside her, and it seems like this might not be a unisex type of device.
I know that makers of high end hiking backpacks have male and female versions because of the different physiology between the sexes. It would seem that exoskeletons would also will have to be customized for a specific body shape and sex.
tying into your plumbing would be easier. it's basically the same effect, and won't require the whole loop nonsense.
after all, the pipes that bring water into your house run underground for miles, or at least bring up well water that is ground temperature anyway.
I would think that the concrete would warm up after a while and decrease efficiency of cooling. if you had running tap water your cold side of the system would remain at a ~50-55 degrees all the time. better watch your water bill, though.
Dumping sewage into rivers was a working system too, until Government went and "broke" it. Think of all of that productivity lost to treating sewage that could be used to build more margaritaville machines.
Where's that 'edit' button?
That Majority opinion comes about through peer review. It's one of the core tenets of scientific study. Scientists have to DO something with all those facts and numbers they gather (i.e. come to a conclusion that others can agree with).
I can collect a lots of knowledge and come to conclusions that might be solid and reasonable within my own mind, but that doesn't make it true or real. I'd only know it was true if i compared my numbers and conclusions with someone else's. That is science.
IT IS consensus.
I see. So non-renewable energy sources aren't subsidized? Lets see you prove that, in a sciency way.
and you call wind and solar "Exotic"? Don Quixote attacked diesel generators, right? The Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria were all steamships?
I won't even start on solar, sufficed to say that it is very useful and can defiantly do work.
uh and why do you say that? Where in the link you provide does it say that they aren't paid by oil companies (since we're being all scientific here)? Who are these MEMBERS? It could be two guys, it could be a hundred.
And you are claiming that the APS refutes anthropogenic climate change? Their statement, at the link you provided, actually reinforces their stand that CC IS caused by man made emissions. That these MEMBERS disagree with the APS's statement is of no consequence.
If I write a letter to the pope that says "We, the members of the Holy Roman Catholic Church, Hate God, so please change your policy toward God accordingly," that doesn't mean the Church or its members hates God.
I say bring the trial on. lets get everyone cards on the table.
Where is the evidence that global warming is NOT caused by man? There is plenty of evidence that can back up the theory that man (i.e. gas emissions) most likely is the cause.
Show me the peer review studies that point to another cause. That does not mean studies that try to disprove anthropomorphic CC, but studies that actually have evidence that there is another cause.
When going to the moon you are not leaving the earth's gravity well, so you aren't actually escaping.
While diamond is a great choice for thermal grease, the heat sink used still has a copper block. with a thermal conductivity less than that of silver, it would seem that you would see little to no gain in heat conductivity as the copper is already 'saturated'.
With the cure being apathy and indifference to the world around you, of course. 'Cause it's so difficult to make decisions and have an opinion, you know? It's much easier to change the channel and put on some Perfect Strangers or TMZ. That Balki, eh? What a character!
it's really not that expensive. it's the retraining doctors and staff. an office that works with paper has to be efficient and highly conditioned. when you take away the paper and reorganize the whole flow of data, it can cripple what was a working system.
it's totally worth it, though. survival of the fittest. I won't go to a doctors office that doesn't use EMR.
There have got to be some roads that need to be paved, or the library could always use more books.
At most, a small town needs a well organized and moderated forum. maybe throw in some social networking juju, but avatars?
There are some successful virtual worlds out there, which, despite their success, I have no interest in visiting. Their effort will be crappy, buggy, pointless, and empty.
The only use I could imagine using this for would be to walk down, virtually, to the mayors house and scream obscenities at it. Add to that a swarm of flying penises and maybe they've won me over.
They do sit on land.
CO2 causes oceanic acidification. If you've ever owned a fish tank, you know how important pH is to keeping fish alive. Shellfish and Coral reefs will dissolve if it get's to acidic. So CO2 IS pollution.
Also, CO2 is a greenhouse gas. At some level, it will have an effect on the climate, either through self-regulating mechanisms like critics claim, or through feedback mechanisms. Either one is unpredictable and scary were they to happen in the short term. So, again, CO2 IS DEFIANTLY pollution.
If you say that C02 at it's current level isn't pollution, you've got an argument we might be able to work with. But at some level, CO2 is a very bad thing.
OK, The graph you link to has it's last data point at 1950. On the graph, CO2 never gets above 300 ppm going back 400,000 years. Your graph also shows a strong correlation between CO2 levels and global temperature.
This graph has come current data: http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/
It shows current CO2 levels at 385 ppm and rising.
The implication is that global temperature will see an equivalent rise above the norm of the past 400,000 years.
Your turn; ball's in your court.
Why be so strict with the pattern? I'm terrible at math, but I know that there are many many patters that 6 people can form. Just throw the ball around between the 6 of them to establish a pattern for the session. Then all any individual has to do is remember who threw the ball to them and who to throw it to next. It's simple, but if you add more balls, you have to throw and prepare to catch quicker and quicker, with the goal being to keep the flow going for as long as possible. If it's too easy, just add more balls.
My friends used to play this game in our dorm room. We called it 'catapult' for some reason. It accommodated any number of people and was very simple to understand, so newcomers were easily integrated into the group. There were often mid-air collisions as the streams crossed, and everyone would cry out like it was Jenga or something. It would be perfect for space, as I bet you could form some pretty cool patterns by tossing the balls down corridors and then circling through more open spaces!!
Also, we often used balled up socks as balls, so astronauts wouldn't need to bring additional balls.
Speaking of corridors, we also used to play a game in the hallways. We used a klutz product called a Foxtail, which is just a rubber ball with a tail attached. 1 person stood at each end of our hallway, which was maybe 40' long. The goal was to throw the Foxtail and try to get it to hit the wall behind the other player. The trick was that if it hit the wall or ceiling, it lost lots of momentum or ricocheted so it was much easier to block. BTW we threw the ball by holding the end of the tail and swinging it vertically, keeping it low, like waist level, so that when released it arced up from our feet and passed the other player as high as possible. You only got one throw per turn, but the ball often clipped the ground because you were trying to keep it so low to the ground to get the best trajectory. We called this one 'foxtrot.'
good times, good times.