Given it's about a bet, I would think of a race horse. Given the amount to be spent, I'm inclined towards a milking cow.
'know what? Let's settle in between: it is actually a bet placed on a milking race cowrse.
Sounds interesting except that I can't find an independent review of this tablet anywhere. Only youtube videos from distributors who are selling them. $30 shipping to the US also cuts into just how much of a bargain this actually is.
Waiting for mine this Friday, with the order being placed last Tue night (UPS with tracking code).
In regards with how much a bargain - your choice:
Kindle Fire - dual core, 7" screen, 512 MB, 14.6 ounces - $199+($4 US domestic)=$203.
Zenithink - single core, 10" screen, 1GB, 22.6 ounces - $145+($40 UPS - the fastest/most expensive)=$185
Try aliexpress - get a brand new android 4 with 1 GB RAM/8GB SD for $145(+H&S). If you don't like droid, boot a linux distro - no need to root it first.
Joking aside (... or not quite...), after staring (with your remaining eye)
You do know that the rangefinders use rapidly moving lasers which are far less bright than,
So...whoosh!
---
Do the lasers cause interference?
Just kidding (... or maybe not?): yes, they do. The result... the cars will observe a hologram, possibly detecting the objects from around the corners.
"'This is some of the best driving I've ever done,' Steve Mahan said the other day.
I guess he usually uses those pavement reflector thingies to drive by braille.
Joking aside (... or not quite...), after staring (with your remaining eye) too much on those laser finders of the incoming traffic, you will appreciate this braille pavement yourself.
... why they don't go whole hog, and call it "HTTP BSDM".
I'm sure they could come up with a good backronym.
Nah... too suggestive on what MS are going to do to their clients... blindfolding, binding, gagging and abusing them and making them pay for the service. Some of them may like it (e.g. I actually fail to understand the Mac fans, entering in a consensual relation of the same nature... and deriving pleasure from it), but it is not a predominant part of the populace (or should I have said... not the predominated part of the populace?).
Well, to make sure I'm politically correct, I'll admit that my fetish is related to Linux... nothing better than the pain of doing it (to) yourself, using shell scripting, make/automake, vi/emacs and starring for hours at a black/white textual consoles until your brain melts under the load of understanding g++ errors (each one spanning on many - tens of - screens) while slowly compiling your project against a heavily templated set of libraries (e.g. Boost spirit::qi).
If a $2.1 million bond is required in case they need to remove the structure. The article says nothing about how much it will cost and if this investment will pay off in the long run. I doubt it especially since the turbine only has an expected life of 20 years.
In my understanding, it will cost nothing the taxpayer. TFA quotes:
Gamesa Energy USA, which is partnering with Huntingon Ingalls Newport News Shipbuilding, to develop and test new offshore wind technologies that will reduce the cost of wind power
The purpose of the project is to advance the demonstration of Gamesa Energy USA, LLC's new offshore WTG technology, the G11X, specifically designed for deployment in offshore wind environments worldwide.
Not only that it will cost nothing the taxpayer, but Gamesa pays an one-time royalty for the piece of ocean's bottom it uses and set aside the bond for removing the installation if/when decommissioned. Even more:
Although the project is just one single wind turbine generator and is not principally intended as major energy supply source, an added benefit of the prototype will be the production of up to five megawatts of clean, renewable wind power to the local Virginia transmission grid for public use.
In other words, making Virginia (and it's governor) look better, while being paid for it.
Japan does not have so much habitable areas. Considering that a plant failure condemns 1000 km, how many accidents are needed to have the Japanese move to Korea/Australia?
i reckon it all depends if the Japanese are able to live at/under sea or not. If they do, it will take longer.
Not that I wouldn't do the same thing in his shoes, but I would still have liked to see this go the distance rather then it just being a payout of tax payers money.
Yes, that is exactly the problem: have your fight for 5 years and all the others only cheering on the margins (if ever). That's no longer justice, it's "entertainment"... and of a dubious quality.
First past the post. "Throwing your vote away". "Letting the worse of two evils win by wasting your vote".
Ah... I see... "stuck in local optimum" when better optimum points exists.
Hmmm... I'd recommend a "reheating the system in simulated annealing", but I feel that the things should go much worse for such a thing to happen.
it's not like it cannot evolve in the unpleasant direction much faster than 30 years
True, hopefully the US has enough checks and balances to reverse the unpleasant direction (which I feel we have been moving slowly in for 30 years now) before it gets too bad.
This doesn't seem in any way as a step (no matter how small or slow) in the right direction.
I'm so jealous of proportional representation. Here 7% of the vote would get you 0% of the seats, barring some sort of miracle - like all of your votes being concentrated, instead of low level throughout the popular vote.
This makes it pretty difficult for new ideas to get out there... If large party A, B (or sometimes even C!) won't buy your idea, it's not getting represented.
This is why America desperately needs a 3rd party. This two party system we currently have does not come close to representing the voice of many Americans.
And what exactly is stopping the 3rd party to arise?
The rules need to be rewritten, give it 30 or 40 years and it should settle down, it's all still very new - judicial time runs much slower than internet time.
As a person born and grown under the communist regimes in East Europe, I cannot stop but wonder just how will it settle down in 30-40 years time... it's not like it cannot evolve in the unpleasant direction much faster than 30 years (except USSR, the rest of the countries in Eastern Europe had the regime imposed to them in a matter of 10-12 years. Imagine if US of A would start muscling the world in this direction... for the sake of the children, against terrorists and to protect their entertainment industry... it's not like UK or Australia haven't already fallen into the pattern).
Seen this one before... "If something goes wrong—which is admittedly rare, but not unheard of—it is probably to the advantage of all involved that they're paying at least some attention to what is going on around them."
Failing to get that said advantage, the TFA suggests:
the more important reason to preserve the current rules is a spiritual one.
Oh boy, what a dilemma.
You may want to say your last prayer... or... switch on your phone, called your loved ones to say "I love you" one last time. In the latest case, I think it's actually better not to switch off your phone at all.
theories that some "magic physics" theories postulates funny things to be possible at some ~50 tesla strenght
They went to pulsed 200T in 1950-ies [wikipedia.org] (see the MK2 in 1956).
Yes, but only with destructive pulsing and you can probably agree that there's a bit of problems with running tests where the magnet pulse is accompanied by a HE shockwave.
I was answering to the "funny things happen over ~50T", not diminishing the merit of the non-destructive 100+T.
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Or are we changing how we mesure it? How we define "autism"?
Add to the list of questions: who define "autism"?
'Cause outside US, not too many seems to care much about patents if they can go ahead with cheaper but equally effective generics.
Big Data or Big Pork?
Given it's about a bet, I would think of a race horse. Given the amount to be spent, I'm inclined towards a milking cow.
'know what? Let's settle in between: it is actually a bet placed on a milking race cowrse.
Sounds interesting except that I can't find an independent review of this tablet anywhere. Only youtube videos from distributors who are selling them. $30 shipping to the US also cuts into just how much of a bargain this actually is.
Waiting for mine this Friday, with the order being placed last Tue night (UPS with tracking code).
In regards with how much a bargain - your choice:
Kindle Fire - dual core, 7" screen, 512 MB, 14.6 ounces - $199+($4 US domestic)=$203.
Zenithink - single core, 10" screen, 1GB, 22.6 ounces - $145+($40 UPS - the fastest/most expensive)=$185
Sure, it reinserts itself, but when it's finished does it take itself out, flip it to the other side, and then reinsert itself again?
:P TFS suggests so:
Meanwhile, tape is going the other direction
Try aliexpress - get a brand new android 4 with 1 GB RAM/8GB SD for $145(+H&S). If you don't like droid, boot a linux distro - no need to root it first.
For robotics? Here's your lamp stack
Joking aside (... or not quite...), after staring (with your remaining eye)
You do know that the rangefinders use rapidly moving lasers which are far less bright than,
So...whoosh!
---
Do the lasers cause interference?
Just kidding (... or maybe not?): yes, they do. The result... the cars will observe a hologram, possibly detecting the objects from around the corners.
... the "e.coli-on-a-chip"... can't have a good gut model without the symbiotic gut flora, can they?
"'This is some of the best driving I've ever done,' Steve Mahan said the other day.
I guess he usually uses those pavement reflector thingies to drive by braille.
Joking aside (... or not quite...), after staring (with your remaining eye) too much on those laser finders of the incoming traffic, you will appreciate this braille pavement yourself.
... why they don't go whole hog, and call it "HTTP BSDM".
I'm sure they could come up with a good backronym.
Nah... too suggestive on what MS are going to do to their clients... blindfolding, binding, gagging and abusing them and making them pay for the service. Some of them may like it (e.g. I actually fail to understand the Mac fans, entering in a consensual relation of the same nature... and deriving pleasure from it), but it is not a predominant part of the populace (or should I have said... not the predominated part of the populace?).
Well, to make sure I'm politically correct, I'll admit that my fetish is related to Linux... nothing better than the pain of doing it (to) yourself, using shell scripting, make/automake, vi/emacs and starring for hours at a black/white textual consoles until your brain melts under the load of understanding g++ errors (each one spanning on many - tens of - screens) while slowly compiling your project against a heavily templated set of libraries (e.g. Boost spirit::qi).
If a $2.1 million bond is required in case they need to remove the structure. The article says nothing about how much it will cost and if this investment will pay off in the long run. I doubt it especially since the turbine only has an expected life of 20 years.
In my understanding, it will cost nothing the taxpayer. TFA quotes:
Gamesa Energy USA, which is partnering with Huntingon Ingalls Newport News Shipbuilding, to develop and test new offshore wind technologies that will reduce the cost of wind power
The purpose of the project is to advance the demonstration of Gamesa Energy USA, LLC's new offshore WTG technology, the G11X, specifically designed for deployment in offshore wind environments worldwide.
Not only that it will cost nothing the taxpayer, but Gamesa pays an one-time royalty for the piece of ocean's bottom it uses and set aside the bond for removing the installation if/when decommissioned. Even more:
Although the project is just one single wind turbine generator and is not principally intended as major energy supply source, an added benefit of the prototype will be the production of up to five megawatts of clean, renewable wind power to the local Virginia transmission grid for public use.
In other words, making Virginia (and it's governor) look better, while being paid for it.
Can we stop whining now?
a process expected to last decades
Japan does not have so much habitable areas. Considering that a plant failure condemns 1000 km, how many accidents are needed to have the Japanese move to Korea/Australia?
i reckon it all depends if the Japanese are able to live at/under sea or not. If they do, it will take longer.
Not that I wouldn't do the same thing in his shoes, but I would still have liked to see this go the distance rather then it just being a payout of tax payers money.
Yes, that is exactly the problem: have your fight for 5 years and all the others only cheering on the margins (if ever). That's no longer justice, it's "entertainment"... and of a dubious quality.
Surely in Australia you could simply capture all the billions of huge venomous spiders and use them to power treadmills to generate electricity?
Yea...naaah, mate! No need for it, drop bears and hoop snakes generate plenty.
(what the heck is funny in being so stuck in a dead-end that only a strong social movement would have a chance to get you a bit of normality?)
What is there to stop them from giving the same treatment to the your entire computing.
Easy: Linux, Mac OSX, Open/FreeBSD. It's not like MS is the only choice nowadays.
First past the post. "Throwing your vote away". "Letting the worse of two evils win by wasting your vote".
Ah... I see... "stuck in local optimum" when better optimum points exists.
Hmmm... I'd recommend a "reheating the system in simulated annealing", but I feel that the things should go much worse for such a thing to happen.
it's not like it cannot evolve in the unpleasant direction much faster than 30 years
True, hopefully the US has enough checks and balances to reverse the unpleasant direction (which I feel we have been moving slowly in for 30 years now) before it gets too bad.
This doesn't seem in any way as a step (no matter how small or slow) in the right direction.
I'm so jealous of proportional representation. Here 7% of the vote would get you 0% of the seats, barring some sort of miracle - like all of your votes being concentrated, instead of low level throughout the popular vote.
This makes it pretty difficult for new ideas to get out there... If large party A, B (or sometimes even C!) won't buy your idea, it's not getting represented.
This is why America desperately needs a 3rd party. This two party system we currently have does not come close to representing the voice of many Americans.
And what exactly is stopping the 3rd party to arise?
Half the time they are the purveyors of the bullshit.
[Citation needed]. No, seriously, I'm genuinely interested.
The rules need to be rewritten, give it 30 or 40 years and it should settle down, it's all still very new - judicial time runs much slower than internet time.
As a person born and grown under the communist regimes in East Europe, I cannot stop but wonder just how will it settle down in 30-40 years time... it's not like it cannot evolve in the unpleasant direction much faster than 30 years (except USSR, the rest of the countries in Eastern Europe had the regime imposed to them in a matter of 10-12 years. Imagine if US of A would start muscling the world in this direction... for the sake of the children, against terrorists and to protect their entertainment industry... it's not like UK or Australia haven't already fallen into the pattern).
So which company had its fancy new antenna tech lifted for this. China's R&D = Reconnaissance and Deception.
Certainly, it is not Apple... get a grip.
(duck)
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Seen this one before... "If something goes wrong—which is admittedly rare, but not unheard of—it is probably to the advantage of all involved that they're paying at least some attention to what is going on around them."
Failing to get that said advantage, the TFA suggests:
the more important reason to preserve the current rules is a spiritual one.
Oh boy, what a dilemma.
You may want to say your last prayer... or... switch on your phone, called your loved ones to say "I love you" one last time. In the latest case, I think it's actually better not to switch off your phone at all.
theories that some "magic physics" theories postulates funny things to be possible at some ~50 tesla strenght
They went to pulsed 200T in 1950-ies [wikipedia.org] (see the MK2 in 1956).
Yes, but only with destructive pulsing and you can probably agree that there's a bit of problems with running tests where the magnet pulse is accompanied by a HE shockwave.
I was answering to the "funny things happen over ~50T", not diminishing the merit of the non-destructive 100+T.