As soon as you start charging for it or place limits on redistribution and dissemination,
Errrmmm... So, aristotle... let's be "logical" to the end.
So... you know... if one starts placing restriction on who the one makes sex with, it's no longer a form of expression, it's becoming commerce and, as such, subject to state regulations. The monogamous marriages would better go and... (either pay money as a tax, also as an option:) fsck the states' tax offices too... in the percentage established by tax regulations. Specifically, if a condom is used during the act, the percentage should be higher (not only the sex is restricted to a single person, but the dissemination of the... well, the product called semen... is artificially restricted as well).
Given the percentage of monogamous population (e.g. fundamentalist Christians of one flavour or the other in the "bible belt"), this will either result in paying the public debt in a very short time or in sperm inflation and total depreciation of sperm banks as institutions... which will result in job losses. A risky proposition, wouldn't you agree dude?
does a politician want exposure without committing any budget?
(given that's a republican politician): how much for "law enforcement" and what proportion for "mental health"?
What does violent games have to do with "mental health"? If "depicting violence whenever accessed" is the key for the answer, why not tax all the TV station for every news about violence? Or, indeed, any display of violence... even in sports involving fighting or... wars???
The oil industry was effectively nationalized decades ago. The industry operates under absolutely strangling regulation and government essentially dictates everything that happens at a refinery right down to when the workers take a leak.
I agree oil industry and govt seem one and the same, but it doesn't quite look like the govt taking over the oil industry. On the contrary, it looks it is the oil industry privatized the government... the result is quite the same for consumers, though.
Ever read about the Heathkit HERO and the general love for robots in the 1980s? This is about as new as a mullet.
Everything cycles... Fashion more than most, but IT does as well. Look at SAS, ASP, Cloud for a good example. However, I do dread the day when big hair and mullets come back.
Dude... before mullets ('80), there should be some crazy '70-ies... I wouldn't mind them.
The scientific explanation is:
1. the entrepreneurs used both the left and right sides of the frontal cortex (with the right side of the frontal cortex acting... indeed... to emotionally excite them)
2. the managers used both the left side of the frontal cortex and the bottom part of their body (with the bottom part of their body giving a s#17 about all)
Sure, learn enough client side tech and you can fumble through putting together an interface - but what then? What about storing state or any number of instances where you need to talk with a DB or do some type of server side magic?
Possible solution:
1. first, you learn enough JavaScript to mock the interaction with a server (which is quite a lot of Javascript, honestly) and develop a fully fledged standalone client - yes, you can do it.
2. next, if you already learnt in this process this heck of a lot (not only enough JavaScript, but also SW engineering), learning a server-side flavour is a piece of cake.
(yes, you're quite observant, there's not "step 3. ???" and no "step 4. profit")
And suddenly, you discover yourself transforming from a guy with disruptive ideas into a guy that sends his CV left and right and hope someone will hire him as an... a****** programmer. And... hold on... this is called "growing up" (as in "coming of age in software").
And the energy they refer as light is just the energy "in flight" in "the field" - there's also the energy in the Motion of the matter which is hot (ie, sound). This last can have many different ways of expression beyond just "frequency". These different ways are different degrees of freedom, and once heat energy density is high enough, it always finds a way to create more. For example, adding more atoms to a molecule increases the number of unique modes with which it can shake about... so heat capacity (energy per temperature change) generally depends on molecular complexity. The material with the lowest heat capacity is also the simplest.
Ummm... what? Heat capacity per what? If it's "per mass" - no, it isn't (hydrogen - 14.30 J/g/K, helium- 5.1932, paraffin wax - C25H52 - 2.5 J/g/k). If it is "per mol" - then it's true that more complex molecules will store more thermal energy in the "vibrational degrees of freedom".
This work is fairly ground-breaking because it shows manipulation heat energy in a way we've not known before. Thermal diodes imply possibly more efficient ways of "switching" the flow of heat - and this means more efficient heat pumps / heat exchangers.
The relevant word (missing from your statement above) is "some" - as in "some heat energy" or "the flow of some heat". And is relevant because there's a bit of way until the second law of thermodynamics is "repealed" (the one that says "Entropy will always increase"): if "all the heat flow" could be controlled, we wouldn't be far from a second type of perpetual motion machine.
A useful program isn't necessarily a complex one; I'm seeing too many people here conflate usefulness with complexity - and no such correlation exists.
Actually, there is one, even if it is an inverse correlation (the more complex a program the less useful. See Unix for a counter).
The time has passed for the OLPC concept. They've been in catch-up mode ever since the netbook wave hit,
Aren't you forgetting OLPC is the very cause of the netbook wave?
and they've fallen even further into irrelevance since the tablet craze took over. This will be yet another overpriced publicity-seeking OLPC flop that never makes it to production.
Not necessarily so if, as TFA mentions:
OLPC also said it would focus less on hardware development and more on education projects.
Now, this is long overdue. I mean: there are plenty courses online nowadays, but I still feel that a constructivist approach to learning going beyond Logo and supported by a computer/tablet is still missing from the landscape.
OpenID meets all these criteria, but Facebook and Google accounts meet them even more strongly.
I can still open a Google or FB account with very little personal identification (just a name that sounds plausible). If the govt. pushes for OpenId, then high chances to say "good-bye, pseudonimity".
...what govt penalizers do best: pick on those least capable of defending themselves...
Why, that's a brilliant example of high moral values: why waste the citizens tax money on those that can do more than defend themselves (like: call someone to just... you know? incidentally mention... they'll deduct the fine from next electoral donation round) ?!
The project’s goal is to build powerful lasers — two in Romania and the Czech Republic and a third in Hungary...
...
The project coordinator for the Romanian site, Nicolae-Victor Zamfir, told Bloomberg that each laser will be 10 times more powerful than any laser currently in existence, such as the one at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
...
The expected date for the first laser facility to become operational is sometime in 2017.
These lasers will be intense enough to perform electron dynamics experiments at very short time scales or venture into relativistic optics, opening up an entirely new field of physics for study. Additionally, the lasers could be combined to generate a super laser that would shoot into space, similar to the combined laser effect of the Death Star in the Star Wars trilogy, though the goal is to study particles in space, not annihilate planets.
So... US won't start funding a Death Star project by 2016 while EU will have a Death Star prototype operational in 2017.
We should probably get working on those things, huh?
I suppose one of these babies will be easier/cheaper to build than a high sophisticated stealth missile: at equally destructive power, the winner is the one that can keep building the weapons longer.
What power plants? Looks like the lasers are mobile and their plans include mounting them on trucks - to me, this indicate a certain degree of autonomy.
For its finale, the laser’s ability to track a very small ballistic target was demonstrated. It honed in on and destroyed a steel ball 82mm in diameter traveling at 50 meters per second. The small ball was meant to simulate an incoming mortar round.
I imagine the cruise missile shell won't be that hard to perforate, especially that their trajectory is pretty much predictable. Besides:
And the company is already looking past the 60kW, saying in a press release that “nothing stands in the way of a future [high-energy laser] weapon system with a 100kW output.” Lastly, they’ll begin making these high-energy laser systems mobile by mounting a laser onto a TM170 armored vehicle. Their ultimate goal is to mount the lasers on vehicles operating in the open.
It's like attaching a light armoured vehicle with a cruise missile. You are welcome to try... even if you succeed, I suppose one is able to sustain the creation of new lasers longer than the other side is able to build cruise missiles.
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As soon as you start charging for it or place limits on redistribution and dissemination,
Errrmmm... So, aristotle... let's be "logical" to the end.
So... you know... if one starts placing restriction on who the one makes sex with, it's no longer a form of expression, it's becoming commerce and, as such, subject to state regulations. The monogamous marriages would better go and... (either pay money as a tax, also as an option:) fsck the states' tax offices too... in the percentage established by tax regulations. Specifically, if a condom is used during the act, the percentage should be higher (not only the sex is restricted to a single person, but the dissemination of the... well, the product called semen... is artificially restricted as well).
Given the percentage of monogamous population (e.g. fundamentalist Christians of one flavour or the other in the "bible belt"), this will either result in paying the public debt in a very short time or in sperm inflation and total depreciation of sperm banks as institutions... which will result in job losses. A risky proposition, wouldn't you agree dude?
does a politician want exposure without committing any budget?
(given that's a republican politician): how much for "law enforcement" and what proportion for "mental health"?
What does violent games have to do with "mental health"? If "depicting violence whenever accessed" is the key for the answer, why not tax all the TV station for every news about violence? Or, indeed, any display of violence... even in sports involving fighting or... wars???
so do tapeworms,
Careful with those.
I think Double.NaN is your problem here... Not Java.
If an API call doesn't sanitize/check its input but causes a core dump, then it's the API problem, not the callers'.
Is Java on browsers so widespread?
Don't know how accurate they are, but some say more than 40% of the computers connected to internet have Java plugin.
The oil industry was effectively nationalized decades ago. The industry operates under absolutely strangling regulation and government essentially dictates everything that happens at a refinery right down to when the workers take a leak.
I agree oil industry and govt seem one and the same, but it doesn't quite look like the govt taking over the oil industry. On the contrary, it looks it is the oil industry privatized the government... the result is quite the same for consumers, though.
Number one isn't always possible. There are security restrictions. You can't use Javascript to write files to a client computer.
html5 local storage
You're welcome.
What do I get by having a webcam-on-wheels?
A shelbot in the car, while you safely stay in bed. Bazinga.
Ever read about the Heathkit HERO and the general love for robots in the 1980s? This is about as new as a mullet.
Everything cycles... Fashion more than most, but IT does as well. Look at SAS, ASP, Cloud for a good example. However, I do dread the day when big hair and mullets come back.
Dude... before mullets ('80), there should be some crazy '70-ies... I wouldn't mind them.
coz they get more excited?
The scientific explanation is:
1. the entrepreneurs used both the left and right sides of the frontal cortex (with the right side of the frontal cortex acting... indeed... to emotionally excite them)
2. the managers used both the left side of the frontal cortex and the bottom part of their body (with the bottom part of their body giving a s#17 about all)
Sure, learn enough client side tech and you can fumble through putting together an interface - but what then? What about storing state or any number of instances where you need to talk with a DB or do some type of server side magic?
Possible solution:
1. first, you learn enough JavaScript to mock the interaction with a server (which is quite a lot of Javascript, honestly) and develop a fully fledged standalone client - yes, you can do it.
2. next, if you already learnt in this process this heck of a lot (not only enough JavaScript, but also SW engineering), learning a server-side flavour is a piece of cake.
(yes, you're quite observant, there's not "step 3. ???" and no "step 4. profit")
And suddenly, you discover yourself transforming from a guy with disruptive ideas into a guy that sends his CV left and right and hope someone will hire him as an... a****** programmer.
And... hold on... this is called "growing up" (as in "coming of age in software").
And the energy they refer as light is just the energy "in flight" in "the field" - there's also the energy in the Motion of the matter which is hot (ie, sound). This last can have many different ways of expression beyond just "frequency". These different ways are different degrees of freedom, and once heat energy density is high enough, it always finds a way to create more. For example, adding more atoms to a molecule increases the number of unique modes with which it can shake about... so heat capacity (energy per temperature change) generally depends on molecular complexity. The material with the lowest heat capacity is also the simplest.
Ummm... what? Heat capacity per what? If it's "per mass" - no, it isn't (hydrogen - 14.30 J/g/K, helium- 5.1932, paraffin wax - C25H52 - 2.5 J/g/k). If it is "per mol" - then it's true that more complex molecules will store more thermal energy in the "vibrational degrees of freedom".
This work is fairly ground-breaking because it shows manipulation heat energy in a way we've not known before. Thermal diodes imply possibly more efficient ways of "switching" the flow of heat - and this means more efficient heat pumps / heat exchangers.
The relevant word (missing from your statement above) is "some" - as in "some heat energy" or "the flow of some heat". And is relevant because there's a bit of way until the second law of thermodynamics is "repealed" (the one that says "Entropy will always increase"): if "all the heat flow" could be controlled, we wouldn't be far from a second type of perpetual motion machine.
Where are you buying $1000 cases (since you mentioned the 100x claim).
Made of wood... and brass and glass and what not
so... if one buys a rifle, I expect the source-code be made available to the one, to do as one pleases, isn't it?
A useful program isn't necessarily a complex one; I'm seeing too many people here conflate usefulness with complexity - and no such correlation exists.
Actually, there is one, even if it is an inverse correlation (the more complex a program the less useful. See Unix for a counter).
Re:Deep purple has been invented!
That particular colour cannot be used to indicate bushfires. I believe it's been reserved for smoke on the water only.
Not only, for fire in the sky as well.
The time has passed for the OLPC concept. They've been in catch-up mode ever since the netbook wave hit,
Aren't you forgetting OLPC is the very cause of the netbook wave?
and they've fallen even further into irrelevance since the tablet craze took over. This will be yet another overpriced publicity-seeking OLPC flop that never makes it to production.
Not necessarily so if, as TFA mentions:
OLPC also said it would focus less on hardware development and more on education projects.
Now, this is long overdue.
I mean: there are plenty courses online nowadays, but I still feel that a constructivist approach to learning going beyond Logo and supported by a computer/tablet is still missing from the landscape.
OpenID meets all these criteria, but Facebook and Google accounts meet them even more strongly.
I can still open a Google or FB account with very little personal identification (just a name that sounds plausible). If the govt. pushes for OpenId, then high chances to say "good-bye, pseudonimity".
The map for Victoria by the state's "County Fire Authority" with auto-refresh.
...what govt penalizers do best: pick on those least capable of defending themselves...
Why, that's a brilliant example of high moral values: why waste the citizens tax money on those that can do more than defend themselves (like: call someone to just... you know? incidentally mention... they'll deduct the fine from next electoral donation round) ?!
(ducks)
.. and this happens just weeks after the USA Death Star petition came in the news.
Linked by TFA article, there's another.
The project’s goal is to build powerful lasers — two in Romania and the Czech Republic and a third in Hungary...
...
The project coordinator for the Romanian site, Nicolae-Victor Zamfir, told Bloomberg that each laser will be 10 times more powerful than any laser currently in existence, such as the one at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
...
The expected date for the first laser facility to become operational is sometime in 2017.
These lasers will be intense enough to perform electron dynamics experiments at very short time scales or venture into relativistic optics, opening up an entirely new field of physics for study. Additionally, the lasers could be combined to generate a super laser that would shoot into space, similar to the combined laser effect of the Death Star in the Star Wars trilogy, though the goal is to study particles in space, not annihilate planets.
So... US won't start funding a Death Star project by 2016 while EU will have a Death Star prototype operational in 2017.
We should probably get working on those things, huh?
I suppose one of these babies will be easier/cheaper to build than a high sophisticated stealth missile: at equally destructive power, the winner is the one that can keep building the weapons longer.
What power plants? Looks like the lasers are mobile and their plans include mounting them on trucks - to me, this indicate a certain degree of autonomy.
For its finale, the laser’s ability to track a very small ballistic target was demonstrated. It honed in on and destroyed a steel ball 82mm in diameter traveling at 50 meters per second. The small ball was meant to simulate an incoming mortar round.
I imagine the cruise missile shell won't be that hard to perforate, especially that their trajectory is pretty much predictable. Besides:
And the company is already looking past the 60kW, saying in a press release that “nothing stands in the way of a future [high-energy laser] weapon system with a 100kW output.” Lastly, they’ll begin making these high-energy laser systems mobile by mounting a laser onto a TM170 armored vehicle. Their ultimate goal is to mount the lasers on vehicles operating in the open.
It's like attaching a light armoured vehicle with a cruise missile. You are welcome to try... even if you succeed, I suppose one is able to sustain the creation of new lasers longer than the other side is able to build cruise missiles.
I will live to see Star Wars like lasers in my life time!!!!!
But only if you don't look straight into their beam.