Admittedly, it's never likely to turn me into a well rounded commercial coder,..
Don't over rate commercial coders. In interviews I put far more weight to the type of people that are interested in coding outside just getting a CS degree. Despite having some more senior coding jobs, I had no university qualification in CS. I had a almost finished degree in physics, which i eventually finished after another dot.not bust.
So in summary, the best way to become a good coder is too code. Even better don't be scared of math and learn a little theory. I am amazed how many CS graduates know practically zero math.
Which is not what the original post claimed. It claimed that 20 buck is a months salary. Eastern Europe is not what people consider "3rd world"-We buy iphones, have laptops and we have well equipped university's etc.... Note that the original meaning has changed a lot since the cold war.
Wrong. It'd probably surprise you, being a US citizen land of the marketing giants...
I live in Eastern Europe you insensitive clod. We are not 3rd world. GPP suggested 20 bucks was a months salary for these "3rd world" places, yet a reply to my post by AC says that eastern Europe may be earing 1000EU a month (I am getting 3x that). This is not the same by even an order of magnitude.
If you getting 20USD per month of purchasing power, you either don't have a computer, or you have one thats so slow that most modern games are not going to run anyway.
Parts per thousands compared to.01 ppm is a factor of 100000. Thats not even comparable. U is mined in the 100 ppm range (factors of 10000 more)...but with methods that avoid processing large amounts of rock. They use leaching.
Facts are that if you have a He3 fusion reactor, you have a DD fusion reactor that not only has much higher energy density, but can put out *tons* of He3 per year as a by product (it could also burn too). Then the He3 would most likely then be used in applications where dealing with neutrons is too heavy.
The idea of mining He3 as something even remotely viable, was dreamed up by folks that just want to go to the moon. Tourism is at least a factor of 100000 better for a reason for a moon base. There is even a reason for humans to be there.
Again while i don't disagree, this problem cannot be fixed from the media end of things. Every attempt at fixing things via the media just changes the person pulling the strings. Even worse, its puts one singular group/view in charge of all the media (ie government). This never turns out better than "free" press with a bunch of different idiots tring to get a mob vote.
The answer is to educate the mob to the point it sees through the media. Good luck with that however.
He3 is useful in *imaginary* fusion. Having 100x less power density and being 10000x harder to burn compared to DT fusion which we don't have outside bombs.
Secondly its at 0.01 ppm in the lunar soil. So for just 1kg of the stuff you going to need to mine 100 thousand tons of rock with perfect efficiency. You going to use more energy than you get.
He3 if or when it becomes a viable fuel source, mean we also have DD fusion... that will produce tons per year of He3 ash.
When the hydrogen is *burning* out thorough a hole, you don't get any hydrogen building up, because its well--burning.
About half the people in the Hindenburg survived because it *didn't* explode. Compare that to the average airline crash, that also doesn't explode, but survival rates are pretty low in comparison. You know about 100 tons of jet fuel is not exactly any different from relatively low pressure hydrogen... in fact its probably worse.
Hydrogen filled airship could easily be as safe and probably safer than modern airliners.
The ability of a private person to go to space is getting better. Not worse... In a manner of speaking.
The problem with the moon shot is that it was little more than a pissing contest with pork. Just like NASAs constellation, its not the path to the stars for joe anybody. So unless all you want to do is watch a special few do "future" things, it was and still is a bad metric to use. Just like the stupid phrase.."if they can put a man on the moon....."
Compare that with how often the average person flew in the 60s compared to now. Or the fact that a cell phone has the most advanced tech we can muster... its not in a bomb or something like that. Its a consumer device with 90%+ of the features for entertainment that is more or less affordable by most of us in the "first world+".
I clean the dust out of my machines once every 3-4 months. I started doing this when my laptop crashed after watching, ironically, HD youtube vids of starcraft 2 games. My video card was hitting its thermal cutoff and the cpus weren't far away. However after cleaning out the dust. It didn't get to over 45C watching the same vids.
I think its a throw back to the quake days where the physics is tied up with frame rate. Long story short, you can just further at 120fps than at 60fps. I would assume that these days of multi core machines, the physics thread is separate from the rendering thread so frame rate won't change the physics. But then lets face it. Games are not exactly the cutting edge of software engineering.
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Then forwarded me a half dozen pdfs of papers, (yeah, probably illegally)...
In most countries and from most journals this is perfectly legal.
..is in the interaction with professors and fellow students...
These days professors can get fired for that ;)
Admittedly, it's never likely to turn me into a well rounded commercial coder,..
Don't over rate commercial coders. In interviews I put far more weight to the type of people that are interested in coding outside just getting a CS degree. Despite having some more senior coding jobs, I had no university qualification in CS. I had a almost finished degree in physics, which i eventually finished after another dot.not bust.
So in summary, the best way to become a good coder is too code. Even better don't be scared of math and learn a little theory. I am amazed how many CS graduates know practically zero math.
Poland was the giveaway.
Whats needed is non emotional dialog from both sides. Biologists and scientists addressing the valid fears of the general public, etc.
But good luck with that.
How many of those "pirates" live in places where $20 is a more than a whole day's wage?
Eastern Europe does not fit into this. And as someone living there, I was never suggesting it was.
Which is not what the original post claimed. It claimed that 20 buck is a months salary. Eastern Europe is not what people consider "3rd world"-We buy iphones, have laptops and we have well equipped university's etc.... Note that the original meaning has changed a lot since the cold war.
Wrong. It'd probably surprise you, being a US citizen land of the marketing giants...
I live in Eastern Europe you insensitive clod. We are not 3rd world. GPP suggested 20 bucks was a months salary for these "3rd world" places, yet a reply to my post by AC says that eastern Europe may be earing 1000EU a month (I am getting 3x that). This is not the same by even an order of magnitude.
If you getting 20USD per month of purchasing power, you either don't have a computer, or you have one thats so slow that most modern games are not going to run anyway.
My kingdom for a mod point.
Not even close to the same level of magnitude however.
How many of those "pirates" live in places where $20 is a more than a whole day's wage?
Probably not many. Since they also probably won't have an internet connection or a PC in the first place. Think about it.
If Monsanto can modify the GM in their plants, couldn't they have made the pollen incompatible with regular crops?
That was the idea behind the terminator gene.
I did in fact know that.
Parts per thousands compared to .01 ppm is a factor of 100000. Thats not even comparable. U is mined in the 100 ppm range (factors of 10000 more)...but with methods that avoid processing large amounts of rock. They use leaching.
Facts are that if you have a He3 fusion reactor, you have a DD fusion reactor that not only has much higher energy density, but can put out *tons* of He3 per year as a by product (it could also burn too). Then the He3 would most likely then be used in applications where dealing with neutrons is too heavy.
The idea of mining He3 as something even remotely viable, was dreamed up by folks that just want to go to the moon. Tourism is at least a factor of 100000 better for a reason for a moon base. There is even a reason for humans to be there.
Again while i don't disagree, this problem cannot be fixed from the media end of things. Every attempt at fixing things via the media just changes the person pulling the strings. Even worse, its puts one singular group/view in charge of all the media (ie government). This never turns out better than "free" press with a bunch of different idiots tring to get a mob vote.
The answer is to educate the mob to the point it sees through the media. Good luck with that however.
There is nothing wrong with nuclear accelerator... whatever that is.
The way our society is geared up we don't just have trial by court, but trial by media;
While I agree. But its not the media.... its the mob. The media would have no one to sell a story too if there was no mob to lap it up.
He3 is useful in *imaginary* fusion. Having 100x less power density and being 10000x harder to burn compared to DT fusion which we don't have outside bombs.
Secondly its at 0.01 ppm in the lunar soil. So for just 1kg of the stuff you going to need to mine 100 thousand tons of rock with perfect efficiency. You going to use more energy than you get.
He3 if or when it becomes a viable fuel source, mean we also have DD fusion... that will produce tons per year of He3 ash.
Going to the moon for He3 is stupid.
When the hydrogen is *burning* out thorough a hole, you don't get any hydrogen building up, because its well--burning.
About half the people in the Hindenburg survived because it *didn't* explode. Compare that to the average airline crash, that also doesn't explode, but survival rates are pretty low in comparison. You know about 100 tons of jet fuel is not exactly any different from relatively low pressure hydrogen... in fact its probably worse.
Hydrogen filled airship could easily be as safe and probably safer than modern airliners.
But could you sell a ticket?
The ability of a private person to go to space is getting better. Not worse... In a manner of speaking.
The problem with the moon shot is that it was little more than a pissing contest with pork. Just like NASAs constellation, its not the path to the stars for joe anybody. So unless all you want to do is watch a special few do "future" things, it was and still is a bad metric to use. Just like the stupid phrase.."if they can put a man on the moon....."
Compare that with how often the average person flew in the 60s compared to now. Or the fact that a cell phone has the most advanced tech we can muster... its not in a bomb or something like that. Its a consumer device with 90%+ of the features for entertainment that is more or less affordable by most of us in the "first world+".
However Stewart is a great calc book. Got mine second hand for about $10NZD and will never let it go. We were told that any edition will do.
True. But folks seem to call a synthesizer all the same. I guess it does something with the envelope etc. But in reality its a glorified sampler.
I clean the dust out of my machines once every 3-4 months. I started doing this when my laptop crashed after watching, ironically, HD youtube vids of starcraft 2 games. My video card was hitting its thermal cutoff and the cpus weren't far away. However after cleaning out the dust. It didn't get to over 45C watching the same vids.
I think its a throw back to the quake days where the physics is tied up with frame rate. Long story short, you can just further at 120fps than at 60fps. I would assume that these days of multi core machines, the physics thread is separate from the rendering thread so frame rate won't change the physics. But then lets face it. Games are not exactly the cutting edge of software engineering.
The point is that you shouldn't expect it, or tolerate it.